Last week I wrote about the lacy JAGO for knitting. It depends on having an edge with loops: either live stitches, Mary Thomas’ Picot cast on (picot in this case a large stable loop, not a thorn-like extension), the selvage that matches the cast on, Barbara Abbey’s faggoted selvage (they are both explained in one post), or the bind off that matches Mary Thomas’s cast on.
I joined the Sempervivum motifs with lacy JAGO in the photo above. The side with the bind off is a bit thicker than the one that was just cast off, but when you hold them up to the light, they look similar. I was interested to see if I’d like it as much all in one color, compared with the illicium blanket I’m joining up that way for my neighbor baby.
I did the second seam by joining the loops like hairpin lace as Barbara Abby wrote about. My post shows how to do it with both a crochet hook (my favorite) or with knitting needles. It’s similar to the Russian Grafting that Gannet has been experimenting with. the last loop needs some thought.
If you leave a loose end where you will end your join, you can thread it through the last stitch before you weave it in. But I forgot about that. Thus the safety pin. It’s not even a coil-less one, because I’ve lost about all of my stitch markers!